STATE NEWS

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A Senate panel plans to investigate increases in homeowner insurance rates approved this year after a harsh winter led to increased claims from property owners.Sen. Michael Barrett, a Lexington Democrat and chair of the Senate's Post Audit and Oversight Committee, said Monday he would hold an oversight hearing in September to question the Division of Insurance about its approval of the new rates.Some of the state's largest property insurers this summer received approval for...

BOSTON - Secretary of the Commonwealth William F. Galvin announced today that the state has implemented online voter registration which allows an applicant to apply to register, change party status or change address for voter registration...

WASHINGTON – Although their voting records run deep blue, the 11 Democrats who make up the Massachusetts delegation in Congress have found ways to cross the partisan divide.Just five months into the 114th Congress, they have...

BOSTON - The federal government has denied Massachusetts' request to expand disaster aid for a January blizzard, the first of several major storms that pummeled the state this past winter.Gov. Charlie Baker appealed to the Federal...